Three menippean fantasies : Menippus; or, The Consultation of the Corpses, Icaromenippus; or, A Man above the Clouds, The Colloquies of the Corpses (Dialogues of the Dead) / Lucian ; translated, with introduction and notes, by Joel C. Relihan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lucian, of Samosata, author.

Contributor:

Lucian, of Samosata.

Relihan, Joel C., translator, writer of introduction.

Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lucian, of Samosata--Translations into English.

Lucian.

Lucian, of Samosata.

Physical Description:

xvii, 166 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Indianapolis ; Cambridge : Hackett Publishing Company, [2021]

Summary:

"A handful of fragments is all that remains of the writings of Menippus, the third-century BCE provocateur of the Greek Cynic movement. The Western literary tradition knows him through Lucian, the Greek satirist who lived and worked four hundred years later. Included in this book are Joel Relihan's lively English translations of Lucian's three reanimations of Menippus--fantastic narratives and comic dialogues set in heaven and hell: Menippus; or, The Consultation of the CorpsesIcaromenippus; or, A Man above the CloudsThe Colloquies of the Corpses (Dialogues of the Dead) For the first time in over fifty years, these works are assembled in a unified format to tell a particular story: Lucian's evolving understanding of the philosophical and literary potential of the person, productions, and purposes of Menippus. Not only is it time to give Lucian's Menippus a fresh look and a thorough reevaluation, but also to consider how Lucian's imitations and innovations adumbrate, illuminate, and complicate the history of that enigmatic genre, Menippean satire." -- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Introduction

Translation

Introduction

Translation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.

Related Work:

Lucian, of Samosata. Menippus. English.

Lucian, of Samosata. Icaromenippus. English.

Lucian, of Samosata. Dialogues of the dead. English.

ISBN:

9781647920265

1647920264

9781647920005

1647920000

OCLC:

1261303978

Publisher Number:

99988903727